andGroomrequest the honour of your presenceas they are united in marriage

Saturday,the seventh of Junetwo thousand fourteenat two o'clock

Church

City, State

(separate reception card needed)

Reception six o'clock

Country ClubAddressCity, State

I'm afraid I have a lot of edits. This is a wedding, not a vow renewal? You cannot use "reception to follow" if there is a big time gap between your ceremony and your reception. What are your guests supposed to do between the ceremony and the reception? This gap is considered to be rude. You do need a separate reception card, since your reception is in a completely different location from your ceremony.Most of the edits are just form related, other than this.I urge you to reconsider your plans! If you must have an afternoon ceremony, then have a traditional afternoon reception so your guests won't have to wait for the evening reception. You could also move your ceremony to 5:00 PM, so your guests could go directly to the reception after the ceremony is finished. Your plans sound very inconvenient for your guests, and that is not good etiquette.

Thank you though! I appreciate your help. I appreciate the feedback and I do realize I could change the reception time, however I don't want to reschedule the reception. It's the norm where I'm from. It will all be ok. I promise. I want enough time for pictures and so on. I have 6 wedding invitations on my fridge right now and all of them have about that long of a gap...in some cases even longer.

@JoanE2012 and whomever else may be concerned: I asked for feedback on my invitation wording...not on the time of my wedding and reception. I am recognizing your feedback and saying ok. I don't need anyone else telling me that I should change the time. I (and our families if you want to me to be honest) chose to have the gap...we're rude and inconsiderate and we're ok with it. Thank you for the feedback.

@JoanE2012 and whomever else may be concerned: I asked for feedback on my invitation wording...not on the time of my wedding and reception. I am recognizing your feedback and saying ok. I don't need anyone else telling me that I should change the time. I (and our families if you want to me to be honest) chose to have the gap...we're rude and inconsiderate and we're ok with it. Thank you for the feedback.

@JoanE2012 and whomever else may be concerned: I asked for feedback on my invitation wording...not on the time of my wedding and reception. I am recognizing your feedback and saying ok. I don't need anyone else telling me that I should change the time. I (and our families if you want to me to be honest) chose to have the gap...we're rude and inconsiderate and we're ok with it. Thank you for the feedback.

Then perhaps you shouldn't post this information on a public message board.

Why do you care about proper invitation wording if you don't even care about hosting your guests properly? That should be your first priority. The gap affects your guests, the invitations do not.

Oh please. The whole "we're Catholic so the gap is unavoidable" line is complete bullshit. @HisGirlFriday13 and some other brides on here (I can't think of any others at the moment) are Catholic and had Catholic ceremonies without having an unhosted gap for their guests.

I find it ridiculous that you acknowledge you could move your reception time but choose not to and yet still try to blame it all on religion. You even said it's ok because you'll have more time for pictures. Obviously your guests are obviously not your top priority. THAT'S ridiculous. You do realize the reception is for your guests, right?

Just because we don't agree with your rudeness does not make something ridiculous.

I moved it up...didn't you see? Since when is OUR wedding reception, celebrating OUR marriage, that WE and OUR families are paying for become about our guests? If a wedding is too inconvenient for me, guess what? I don't go. I send a gift but wouldn't expect the same. This board is for invites and paper...not for what time my wedding and reception begins. IF I could have my wedding later I would, but my church has a 4:30 mass and we only have the venue for 5 hours. I didn't do it just to make people angry. We have a Catholic wedding we're attending in two weeks that begins at 1:30. The reception is at 6:00...no one I know is upset by that. I guess they're rude too. I'm a grown adult. I will find things to do to entertain myself in between.

I moved it up...didn't you see? Since when is OUR wedding reception, celebrating OUR marriage, that WE and OUR families are paying for become about our guests? If a wedding is too inconvenient for me, guess what? I don't go. I send a gift but wouldn't expect the same. This board is for invites and paper...not for what time my wedding and reception begins. IF I could have my wedding later I would, but my church has a 4:30 mass and we only have the venue for 5 hours. I didn't do it just to make people angry. We have a Catholic wedding we're attending in two weeks that begins at 1:30. The reception is at 6:00...no one I know is upset by that. I guess they're rude too. I'm a grown adult. I will find things to do to entertain myself in between.

To the first bolded.....you clearly do not understand the definition of a reception. I'll copy it below for you. In short, it is your "thank you" to your guests. It is most definitely not all about you. That's what the ceremony is for.

A wedding reception is a party held after the completion of a marriage ceremony. It is held usually as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, hence the name reception: the couple receives society, in the form of family and friends, for the first time as a married couple.

To the second bolded....when you post on a public message board, you don't get to dictate what kind of responses you get. If you post something that is rude, you'll hear about it. Doesn't matter what board it's on.

And to the third bolded, you could've booked an earlier reception. Again, you keep coming back to the church and religion for your gap. I'm glad you're not bothered by a gap, but many people are. It's not the proper way to treat those who you supposedly care so much about. As a guest, what the hell am I going to do for a couple hours dressed to the nines? I'd be bored out of mind.